Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 496 pages
- Published by: Oxford University Press, USA May 13, 1999
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0192838660
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0192838667
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Book Dimensions:
7.7 x 5.1 x 1 inches
- Weighs: 12 ounces
Product Review
"[A] very useful, practical edition."--Glenn Olsen, University of Utah
"One of the first great works of English literature.This new edition is based on the standard scholarly text, comes replete with notes by its editorsand includes two shorter works, "The Greater Chronicle" and the "Letter to Egbert".This book offers anecdote, philosophical observation, and even charm."--The Washington Post
Product Description
Starting with the invasion of Julius Caesar in the fifth century, Bede recorded the history of the English up to his own day in 731 A.D. A scholarly monk working in the north-east of England, Bede wrote the five books of his history in Latin. The Ecclesiastical History is his most famous work, and this edition provides the authoritative Colgrave translation, as well as a new translation of the Greater Chronicle, never before published in English. His Letter to Egbert gives his final reflections on the English Church just before his death. This is the only edition to include all three texts, and they are illuminated further by a detailed introduction and explanatory notes.
Reader ReviewsThere are striking similarities between Bede's era (mid 700's) and our own. You would have figured that our "advanced" society would have learned from the past and not be caught up in a never ending repeat of past problems. Any number of passages in this book could be inserted as a lead story in a TV or newspaper report and I suspect no one would know the difference. If the New York Times was being published in the year 731, Bede would have been on the "Best Seller" list.
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